Phyllanthus.] cxxxv. nvpHorpraces. (J. D. Hooker.) 295 
ribbed erect, leaves 1-3 in. shortly petioled coriaceous elliptic linear- or 
obovate-oblong obtuse or acute margins recurved, stipules broad peltate, 
male fl. shortly fem. longer-pedicelled, filaments connate to the middle, 
anthers didymous, disk of fem. broad 6-lobed, styles reflexed 2-partite, cap- 
sule minute, seeds rugulose. Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 28, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii, 385. 
KnasrA Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft., Wallich, &e. MUNNIPORE, Watt. 
A small shrub, with erect leafy densely fascicled rigid woody branches, and slender 
grooved branchlets. Leaves dense, suberect, glaucous beneath, pale greenish when 
dry ; base cordate or rounded 3 nerves 5-6 pair, faint beneath; petiole 1, in., stout; 
stipules membranous. Flowers from tufts of fimbriate bracts, males 4; in. diam., on 
very short pedicels; fem. 3, in., fruiting 44; in. diam., spreading. Sepals 5 or 6, 
broadly oblong. Disk of male of glands; of fem. broad, expanded, lobes broad emar- 
Blnate. Style-arms slender, straight. Capsule 4,—) in. diam., depressed globose, 
crustaceous, faintly 3-lobed. Seeds transversely rugulose on the back, striated in a 
radiating manner on the sides.—I find no means of distinguishing Mueller's var. genuinus 
and parvifolius. 
26. P. simplex, Retz. Obs. v. 99; annual or suffruticose, quite gla- 
brous, branches compressed, leaves distichous 3-1 in. subsessile from linear 
to oblong-obovate elliptic and rounded obtuse acute or apiculate, stipules 
peltate subsagittate, fem. flowers on short or long pedicels, filaments free, 
anthers didymous, ovary smooth or pubescent granular, styles short free 
reflexed arms recurved, capsule minute smooth or sparsely echinate, seeds 
minutely tubercled. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 391. 
Throughout Inpra, in the plains and low hills from Kumaon to Assam and 
southward to TRAVANCOR, MaLAcoa and CEYLON, ascending the hills to 6000 ft.— 
DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, Mongolia, Pacific Islands. 
, Stem either woody below with strict erect slender flattened leafy branches, or erect 
with Spreading branches, and 3 ft. high; or a low dwarf bush with fascicled 
terete branches and compressed branchlets. Zeaves sometimes distichously imbri- 
cating towards the ends of the branchlets, rather coriaceous and glaucous beneath; 
Petiole minute or 0; stipules very variable, entire or toothed or fimbriate. Flowers 
often 3-nate 2 males and 1 female, or more frequently the females solitary in the upper 
axils; males very minute, j in. diam., pedicel capillary y;—/5 in.; fem. on much 
longer stouter pedicels shorter or longer than the leaves. Sepals broadly oblong, 
fem. slightly enlarged in fruit, Disk of male of large rounded glands, of fem. annular. 
tyles variable in length. Capsule 4;—j in. diam. ; depressed globose, smooth, crus- 
taceous. Seeds 34 in. long, covered loosely with minute tubercles in irregular lines. 
—A most variable plant, of which Mueller has established four Indian varieties, differing 
greatly in their extreme forms, but connected by innumerable intermediates. To these 
add, us a fifth, his P. Miquelianus. 
P. SIMPLEX PROPER; stems many from a woody stock erect or ascending curved 
Or strict flattened, leaves usually narrow and long sometimes 1j in., fem. pedicels 
shorter than the leaves, P. simplex, Row, Fl. Ind. ii. 654; Wall. Cat. 7898 
(eel. part of D); Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 234. P. anceps, Heyne in Vahl 
Symb. ii. 95.” P. virgatus, Herb. Madr. P. depressus, Herb. Russell. P. simplex, 
var. genuinus, Muell, l c. . 
^R. oblongifolia, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 32, and in DC. l.c. ; stem erect 
wiusely branched, leaves 3—2 in. long elliptic-oblong subacute, fem. pedicels j-$ in. 
acraea oblongifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1902, f. 1. ? Melanthesa rupestris, M iquel F l. Ind. 
at. i. ii, 37 l.— Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon.—I can hardly distinguish this from 
Var. Gardneri i of Miquel's Melanthesa rupestris. 
riana. I have seen no specimens rt and in DC. Le. 992; usually 
ar. Gardneriana, Muell. Arg. in Linnea 
glabrous, branches very long and slender from a short stock, branchlets angular hardly 
compressed, Jeaves from linear to broadly oblong, male fl. often fascicled, styles slender, 
capsule smooth. P. Gardneri, Thwaites Enum: 282. P. Gardnerianus, Baill. Etudes 
